Seeding attachment for plows



" (No Model.)

H. H. SPENCER.

. SEEDING- ATTACHMENT FOR FLOWS.

No. 255,348. T Patented Mar. 21,1882.

WITNESSES I JJ/ 1 VENTOR Mime N, PETERS. Phololithogmpi ler, Wuhmpm. n. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY H. SPENCER, OF MOUND CITY, ILLINOIS.

S EEDING ATTACHMENT FO R PLOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,348, dated March 21, 1882.

Application filed July 30, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. H. SPENCER, a citizen of the United States, resident at Mound City, Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin SeedingAttachments for Flows; and I do hereby declare that the fol-.

lowing is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, ret'erencekbeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure lot the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of my device attached to a plow, and Fig. 2 is a rear "iew of the same toward the furrow side ofthe beam past the share. At its end 01 this arm 0 has a vertical socket, e, in which works loosely the stemfof the feed box g, in the bottom of which box is (No model.)

the seed-opening h and feed-wheel k. The length of the arm 0 is such that as the share on cuts one furrow the seed-box g travels in the furrow already made and drops seed. As the box is in advance of the share, the seed is dropped in frontof the overturned slice,which falls upon and covers the seed up.

This attachment can be secured to a sulky or other plow as well as to the one shown in the drawings.

I am awareof a device having a seed-box in front of the plowshare and adapted to move up and down, and lay no claim thereto, broadly.

What I claim is- The combination of the following parts, to wit: a beam, 1), having the arm 0 extending at right angles thereto past the share, and provided at its end with the vertical socket c, the seed-box 9, having the stem f, fitting said socket, and the feed-wheel 70, located in the seed-opening h in the bottomot' the box, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY H. SPENCER.

Witnesses:

L. F. GRAIN, D. N. KENNEDY. 

